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Big news for Saturn fans was shared this week in the SHIRO! Discord: Two Japanese-exclusive, online-only Saturn titles thought lost to time have been cracked open by one of the…
Best Of Saturn
Sensing an opportunity to put their expertise from creating the Wonder Boy games to the test, studio Westone produced the Saturn-exclusive Willy Wombat. A 3D overhead platformer with full freedom…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
My favorite Japanese cheat site has three codes listed for Langrisser IV, the tactical RPG from Career Soft: Sound Test: Enter A, Z, Y, X, A, Z, X, Y on…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Heir of Zendor – Saturn Port of Pu·Li·Ru·La Gets English Fan Translation – Waku…
News
KoolFiller isn’t kooling down anytime soon when it comes to his Saturn hacking, releasing yet another English translation yesterday morning to download on SegaXtreme. Having just released the first volume…
News
Saturn homebrew developer Frogubll, or “Frogbullsh*t” as some may affectionately say, posted a massive update to the Metal Gear Solid porting project. A video on the dev’s YouTube channel posted…
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Last week, Xiden released updates for both PlanetWeb and the Sega Touring Car Championship leaderboard, which makes using the NetLink or Xband modem cartridges for browsing and submitting STCC times…
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In September, a user on GitHub known as pepa released an English fan translation for Snatcher on the PlayStation 1, labeled as release v0.5. After various iterations over the month,…
Community
It’s Spooky Season, SHIRO! community! To celebrate, our October Community Challenge will be a monster mash of an action puzzler! Success in this slippery stacker will require participants to be…
News
An English translation patch for the Saturn home-exclusive action puzzler Monster Slider is now available! While this patch was created specifically for the October SHIRO! Community Challenge — more details…
Best Of Saturn
While 1998 was the death knell for the Saturn in the West, the East saw well more than 200 releases, including Datt Japan’s strategy RPG Valhollian. Set in a medieval…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire is a historical simulation title from Koei, the premier publisher for that sort of game in the ’90s. Wall of Fire…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! GAMESTREAM AND CHAT! This week, we’ll just be chilling with some Culdcept and the latest fan translations that hit the scene. This is more of…
News
The Indie Game Studio Memoria Pixel, a team of software and hardware developers from Brazil, has provided new details on its in-development homebrew project titled Kid Racers, coming soon to…
Editorial
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have…
Best Of Saturn
Based on the Madou Monogatari universe, Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon is a top-down rougelike action RPG produced and released by Compile in April 1998. The story sees the player…
News
The summer of Saturn blazes on even into fall with yet another English fan translation on the Saturn thanks to KoolFiller! The first release of the Arcade Gears series of…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
If you put the disc for the Saturn game Heir of Zendor into your PC’s CD-ROM drive, you’ll see a file called 99README.TXT. It contains messages from the game’s development…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – MAINLINE CAST: EP 9 – The Top Voted Saturn Games in Japan – Under the Microscope: Blazing…
News
The Dreamcast sure has been getting a lot of love lately. Sonic R is the latest title to join the recent avalanche of fan-made ports to Sega’s sixth-generation powerhouse with…
News
On September 7, developer Grimfel announced his work in progress to port Resident Evil 2 to the Sega Saturn, and he had it running on real hardware by the 13th!…
News
Exxistance dropped his and Wiredcrackpot’s English translation hack for the Saturn exclusive Cyber Doll this morning on his GitHub. Developed by Betop and published by I’Max in 1996 in Japan,…
Best Of Saturn
Disney-based games were always a hit on the Mega Drive / Genesis, and the SEGA AGES entry I Love Mickey Mouse / I Love Donald Duck features both Castle of…
News
For the first time in nearly two years, the fan recreating X-Men Arcade on Sega Saturn released an update. X-Men Arcade Version 0.5.0D is linked in the YouTube video below,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Puyo Puyo Tsuu (Saturn) – Shadows of the Tusk #BestOfSaturn – Meduza Team Releases…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Blazing Dragons was an animated TV series created by Monty Python alum Terry Jones and entertainment industry wizard Gavin Scott. It ran for two seasons between 1996 and 1998. This…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast! Episode 9: The Top Voted Saturn Games in Japan Air Date: 2026-09-12 Patreon Early Access: 2026-09-03 In this episode, join Patrick, Peter, Nick,…
News
Released by CheeseburgerFreedomMan over on SegaXtreme at the end of last month, an English translation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion dating game Girlfriend of Steel has made second impact on…
News
Developer Hinges (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam) appears to be well underway with the rapid-fire creation of a user-friendly 3D game development tool for Sega Saturn….
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Longtime translation patch group Meduza Team is back with another shadowdropped effort — this time it’s Madou Monogatari, also known as Sorcery Saga. The patch went up Tuesday on Meduza…
Best Of Saturn
Having already experimented with the Saturn’s online facilities with Saturn Bomberman, Hudson Soft saw fit to unleash the card strategy game Shadows of the Tusk on Japanese gamers in mid-1998….
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: NBA Jam Tournament Edition, NBA Jam Extreme – Princess Crown #BestOfSaturn – Princess Maker…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In a previous edition, I wrote about how some Saturn games censor their high score screens. If you try to put your initials in as XXX or SEX, they’ll replace…
Editorial
The Cat Came Back… Few Saturn homebrew projects have had quite the evolution of 7Shades’ CubeCat. What began as a modest experiment by a programmer learning his way around Saturn…
News
A fan is hacking an old English translation into the Saturn version of daughter-raising simulator Princess Maker 2. Washbear posted a thread on SegaXtreme last week showing off her progress…